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In today’s show, Brandon Dawson talks about the secret to great businesses — your people. Learn to lead by influence not position. Great businesses are built with great people. No great business was ever built with mediocre people, it just doesn’t happen. So how do move beyond where you’re at to where you want to be? The only way to do that is to start thinking different. When you think different you do different. So the question is how do I change my thinking? How do I increase my point of references? How do I have a richer, more dynamic take on what is available to me in my life, personally, professionally, and financially? How do I inspire and gather others to help me attain that purpose? If you want to inspire and gather others, you have to make their purpose your priority too. I thought I was a good leader, but I learned in reflection that I was a dictator leader. I was leading by position, not by using true power. True p

Hello everyone! My name is William Smith and I'm a producer on the Attainable Podcast Network. Just wanted to make you aware of some programming updates for the coming week or so and take a moment to thank you for subscribing and listening to Attainable - the response so far as been really great. We're headed back to the studio to record some all new Attainable shows, focused on providing you actionable business insights that help you reach your goals, whether they are personal, professional or financial. In the meantime, we will be re-running some of our earliest shows that many of our subscribers missed during our soft launch of the podcast. You don't need to do anything to your subscription feed, we will just interweave some of our first shows into the rotation. There will also be some bonus content added to the mix as well. Attainable will be back with brand new shows in mid September. I also wanted to make everyone aware of some of the other shows on the network.  Spotlight is a new show d

We need to remind ourselves that belief is the master, and we have become the slaves to our belief. And our belief dictates the actions we take in all we do. But the good news is we can change our beliefs. And the exciting thing about believe is this-- if we change our belief, which is the cause, we also can change our experience, which is the effect or the result. We always have a choice about what we want to believe in and how we want our life to look. We are never permanently stuck with old, unworkable, broken beliefs. 

Great vision precedes great achievement. Every team needs a compelling vision to give it direction. A team without vision is, at worst, purposeless. At best, it's subject to the personal, and sometimes selfish, agendas of various team members. As the agendas work against each other within your environment, the team's energy and drive drain away. On the other hand, a team that embraces vision becomes focused, energized, confident, intentful, and it knows where it's headed and why it's going there. Remember, vision gives team members direction and confidence. What is your vision? What are you doing to build the confidence of your team? 

Great leaders always find a way for the team to win. Victorious leaders possess an unwillingness to accept defeat. The alternative to winning is totally unacceptable to them. Leaders who practice the law of victory have no plan B. Trust me. They'll just continue to fight until they win. What and who are you competing against? Anybody? For any purpose? What do you want to be victorious about? If you don't have that in you, then find it. If you want to do things bigger and better and greater, find the way that you can impact people. Make their success your point of focus. 

Remember the highest goal of leadership is to develop other future leaders, not gain followers or do work, but develop future leaders. It takes all your energy, from what you do to who you do it with, showing they're the most important factor in attaining your goals. Because remember, they're going to either amplify and magnify all your success-- your total sum of your purpose-- or they're going undermine it. So you have no choice but to develop your people to the highest, most impactful contribution possible. And that has to be your commitment, not your job. Your joy and passion has to turn from the "what you do" to "who you do it with." 

You cannot lead people without really liking them. Intrinsic connection is key to great relationships. So think about this, if you don't like being around somebody, if you don't like spending time with them, if you don't like connecting with them, if you're not really fond of being in the general presence of that person and you can't connect that way, how do you create permission leadership? Permission leadership is through empowerment. It's through developing people to their highest impact so that you can trust them to go and do it on their own. It says, I am empowering you to make good decisions and do the right things because I trust that you understand that you can represent the organization at the highest level possible and therefore I'm not going to constrain your ability to do that, I'm going to amplify it by assisting you and helping you so that we together can impact the organization at the highest possible potential. How do you do that if you're not spending time with somebody? How do you do it

Only secure leaders give power to others. Leading well is not about enriching yourself. It's about enriching and empowering others. The number one enemy of empowerment is the fear of losing what we have. It's the rate limiting factor to your overall success. Many business owners will say to me, "But I've have empowered my team." There's a big difference between empowering your team and abdicating to your team. See, people get confused all the time about the difference between empowerment and abdication. Empowerment is not just saying to somebody, go figure it out. I trust you. Empowerment says this is the impact I need and want you to make on the business. And I'm intelligent enough and focused enough and intentional enough that if you create this impact on the business, I will ensure that we create this impact on your personal, professional, and financial aspirations. That's where our intentionality grows together. That's where our alignment comes from. 

In today's show, Brandon Dawson asks you to look in the mirror and think about how your employees would define your legacy. Look in the mirror and ask yourself this simple question, when I look inside my own organization, what would the people that work there-- the people who help me-- what would they say was my legacy relative to them-- not to the community you serve. The people that you've brought into your culture to assist you in creating that impact. "What would they say is your legacy with them?" Because if you can't say you're legacy is that you made a huge impact on their life-- you've taught them something, you've pushed on them, you've developed them, you've trained them, you've aligned them, their accomplishing their goals and objectives and their dreams by working with you-- if they can't say that, then you have a business that's a 'me' business. If you want to amplify and magnify that-- you want to attain true greatness-- first start with what legacy you're going to have with the team doing it wi

In today’s show, Brandon Dawson describes the differences between consultants and catalysts.   Winning teams have players who make things happen. Catalysts are not consultants. They don’t recommend a course of action. They take responsibility for making it happen.  So think about this, who’s the catalyst in your business? Who’s the person that just gets it done? And then has time and energy and effort to do more? Because that’s the type of people you want to surround yourself with.  Bring the right people in in alignment with your organization, and they will get things done.  And inspires and moves the rest of people around them because they realize, gee! If I actually do that and I get a better result, I do it the right way. Look at the good things that can happen from it.  What you need in your life are as many catalysts as possible. The only way you can attract a catalyst is to be one yourself.

Teammates must be able to count on each other all the time and especially when it matters the most. There's an old saying when it comes to teammates. Either we're pulling together, or we're pulling apart. Write and publish what you want, but the only missions, values, and ethics that count in your company are those that manifest themselves in all the behavior of all the people contributing to the organization all the time. All people in the organization need to be able to depend on each other. You can't have different people doing different things based on their own bias or opinions. Either were all straining, and reaching, and driving to attain excellence or remarkability in all we do, with accountability, with discipline, with intentionality, or we're not. 

In today's show, Brandon Dawson stresses the importance of the entire team understanding, buying into and working together towards "the big picture" The goal is more important than the role. If you think you're the entire picture, then you'll never see the big picture. And you know, if a team is going to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate their personal goals for the good of the team.  But why is this important? If you don't have the proper big picture and if everyone doesn't understand that they play a integral part of that, not an individual, not an independent, but an integral, which means they work together as a team. And they support each other and they complement each other. In order for a team to reach its potential, it has to understand that individuals have to align with the interests and the impact the organization is desirous of making.  And that picture has to be painted by the owner, the leader of the business. If you're going to have a big picture, you have

In today's show, Brandon Dawson talks about how entrepreneurs can develop their intuitive skills. Intuition is the innate ability for an entrepreneur to see and sense and take advantage of an opportunity. People are intuitive in their area of strength. And whenever a leader faces a problem, they automatically measure it and begin solving it using their intuition.  See, intuition is built through doing things over and over and over and seeing the result. Many of you started your business because you saw an opportunity to do something great. And then you get so busy doing whatever you're doing that's great, you don't amplify and magnify and multiply it because you get yourself in a position where you're the only one that can do it. When you're so ingrained in doing it, you lose the ability to be intuitive. Intuition needs to breathe in your organization through your people and through you. 

In today’s show, Brandon Dawson talks about trust and the energy it provides your business. Trust is the foundation of leadership. To build trust, a leader must exhibit competence, connection, and character. Character makes trust possible and trust makes leadership possible.  If you have the kind of trust with your team that says they can engage you when there's problems, or when there's opportunities, or when they have thoughts, or when they just want to smile and say, good morning. People are going to connect, they're going to work with each other, they're going to trust each other, they're going to treat each other with a high level respect, understanding that everything that happens in your organization is energy. When people can trust that they understand who you are and what makes you up, and how you're going to engage them, and what they can depend on, then they'll be more apt to connect with you in a way that allows them to share in your vision of where you want to go and feel they can part

In today’s show, Brandon Dawson talks about the difference between me leadership and we leadership, and why it’s important to chart your course.   Anyone can steer a ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. When it comes to leadership, the first leadership you have to master is me leadership. Once you’ve mastered me leadership and you’ve become an example to others, then you have to master we leadership.   “Leaders who navigate do even more than control the direction in which they and their people travel, but they see the whole trip in their minds before they even set course.” They have a vision for getting there. They know who they’ll need on the way, what kind of team they’ll need to be successful, and they recognize obstacles long before they appear on the horizon. If you know where you want to go and you know how to get there, you’ll do it bigger, better, and faster. And let me tell you, the wider your team an

In today’s show, Brandon Dawson explains how YOU are responsible for everything that happens to you — good or bad. You are responsible for everything that happens to you– good, bad, or indifferent. If you blame others for where you’re at in life, you voluntarily give up your power to change. This is such a huge mistake that most business owners make. See, when I talk to them and they tell me all the reasons that they’re encountering struggle, they blame everyone around them. They blame the economy, the government, they blame their competitors, their employees. But this isn’t going to solve the problem. And in the same market where they’re struggling, and all these people and all these things are the reasons they can’t succeed, there’s somebody growing unbelievably well, in the exact same market, doing the exact same thing. How is it that two businesses doing the same thing, one could be struggling and failing and identify all the reasons that&rsq

In today’s show, Brandon Dawson reminds us that the energy we give off is equal to the energy we receive. We are the creators or the cause of our current conditions. We are the ones responsible for either having or not having. And a central growth principle is the more you outflow, the more you inflow. Better said, the more you give, the more you get. It talks about we must give the very thing that we want. If I want respect, love, appreciation, dedication, commitment, loyalty, I have to give that first. I can’t attract it in my life if I’m not giving it. This is such a clear example of what so many business owners struggle with. Do you know how many business owners talk to me and say, what I want is an employee who’s loyal. I want an employee who’s respectful. I want an employee who cares about things other than themselves. I want an employee who will reach the extra mile or go the extra distance. I want an employee that this, or I want an employee that that. Or I want a custome

In today’s show, Brandon Dawson helps you create your very own intention statement and describes why it is an important first step in attaining your goals. See, to establish fact and belief, you have to write it out about exactly what it is you want to attain. You have to feel it. You have to see it. You have to visualize the attainment of what it is you want to be intentional about creating. Then you’ll have that emotional response, and it’ll trigger the reference points in your mind to go do the things that you need to do in order to make your picture come the life. But if you don’t write something down because you don’t have a picture, and you don’t visualize it, and you don’t put any energy behind it, it does you no good. So picture and experience in your mind accomplishes the triggers and the reference points to allow you to get the confidence to see a bigger result. Your self-activity involved in this accomplishment is so important, because if you don’t fi

In today’s show, Brandon Dawson talks about visualizing your success through the same types of exercises pro-athletes use. Anything you believe, the subconscious will validate. Absolutely, every time, find the conditions to validate your broken belief. If you have a limited belief or broken belief and you say you want to have a different result, unless you program your mind to think differently, and to see things differently, and to experience things differently, you’ll find the same result you already believe is what’s going to occur. See, the belief is the master and we become the slaves to that belief. Our belief dictates our actions. And through the repetitiveness of activity, if we succeed, we gain confidence and we break through our false beliefs. But if we continue to stagnate or fail, we validate those broken beliefs. “If you want to change your result, you have to change your actions. But your actions can’t change until you change your belief.” Now, how do you do t

In today’s show, Brandon Dawson helps you identify your goals and stay on track in reaching them. If you want a business that’s surviving and thriving, versus a business that’s struggling, that’s a decision – that’s a choice. You have to make that choice yourself. And the first part of getting what you want is clearly understanding and identifying exactly what that is. See, that’s where law of picture comes in– law of compass. This is why law of picture is so important. If you have a picture and you use law of compass so you know what direction you’re going, and you surround yourself with people who have clarity and understanding and are attached to that picture, because their picture’s inside of your picture, then you can all succeed together. “The first part of getting what you want is first clearly understanding what that is.” And then you have a team of people who understand what that is, and you have a clear picture and you have comp